Personal Essay Defining the Self Essay

My research into Dawkins’ popular, modern scientific view in ‘The Selfish Gene’ satisfied the problem of individual instances of altruism encountered by Hobbes, due to the distinction between selfishness at a genetic rather than personal level. Dawkins’ proposals present to me a number of philosophical problems. The individual can be considered as ethical, as an evolutionary tendency towards co-operation is as valid as all our other evolutionary characteristics. However, if that…

from opportunities because of their gender. Feminist activists have and to this day, are still fighting for women to have equal opportunities as men through social and political theories by protesting and campaigning. In Karen Offen’s book titled, Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach, she states that although its true origins are unknown, the invention of the word féminisme (French for “feminism”) was thought to be coined by a French philosopher in the 1830s, named Charles…

Theresa Galamez October 28, 2016 COMS 356- Sat 11am Essay 3- Cultural Relativist I am definitely a cultural relativist because I respect beliefs, values and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself. I believe that all cultures are worthy in their own right and are of equal value. Being right or wrong are culture-specific and what is considered immoral in one society may be considered immoral in another, and, since no universal standard of morality exists, no one has…

it’s origins are subject to a great deal of debate. When Rebecca Walker famously declared in 1992 “I am the Third Wave”, she opened the doors to a movement that moved past what they perceived as the second wave’s ideological rigidity (Walker). This essay explores a wide range of academic discourse on third-wave feminism with the intention of looking past the misconception that the third-wave movement is merely a revolt against the second-wave and can be dismissed as generational conflict.…

Context Over the course of the semester, I have been placed in Hopewell Junior School. I worked with an intervention specialist, Gina Ottlinger. Mrs. Ottlinger works with both seventh and eighth grade students, specializing in math and reading intervention, and inclusion in all content. I was used as assistance in the classroom, and worked with Mrs. Ottlinger to create accommodations on assessments. I also worked with her to create informal assessments, using observations to gage where students’…

An Interpersonal Relationship between my Grandma Scott and me This essay will demonstrate what I have learned about interpersonal communication and how I can apply it in my everyday life after reading the book, Inter-Act: Interpersonal Communication: Concepts, Skills, and Contexts, Fourteenth Edition written by Kathleen S. Verderber; Erina L. MacGeorge. I am writing this relationship analysis reflecting on three separate occasions of meeting face-to-face and talking with my grandma. The first…

epistolary novel informs notions of the self, specifically in regard to Samuel Richardson’s Pamela. To do so, it is imperative to evaluate the forms’ impact on the story it tells. The notions of immediacy and intimacy inherent in the letter form are emphasized here. Locke’s theory of the blank self can be used to explain the creation of Pamela. Finally, Rousseau’s ideas about the creation of the self through reading explore the novel’s potential to develop the self of both the reader and the…

Now even thou Plato and Aristotle do not specifically link to cosmopolitanism, their ideas have the same type of perspective to that of which this essay is about. When looking at the big picture in today’s society and talking about a single community made up of man, these two philosophers emphasis on the polis; which is a city’s contingency in ancient Greece, and specifically considered for philosophical…

thing called unmediated access to reality” (dyer 1993),this essay will be discussing women’s role in film between the 1980s to the 2000s, how it has changed and why. I will be using a Big Eyes, 9 to 5 and Alien as an example to show how female characters were represented and the difference in their contribution to the narrative. Firstly representation means to depict or to show an image of something that is already there which in this essay will be women , when it’s used by mass media it…

this ridiculously incoherent but incredibly interesting essay. The development of the ideas of a traumatic memory comes from surgical sources from the late 1800s to Young’s own essay about post-traumatic stress disorder in 1995. This wide range of documents hides the fact that they are mostly researchers situated in the West, not to mention the obvious possibility of Eurocentric thought combined with andocentrism. Young also hints that his essay is focused on Western psychiatry even though he…